Sec. 1696. PROCUREMENT OF AMMONIUM PERCHLORATE AND OTHER CHEMICALS FOR USE IN SOLID ROCKET MOTORS

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## SEC. 1696 PROCUREMENT OF AMMONIUM PERCHLORATE AND OTHER CHEMICALS FOR USE IN SOLID ROCKET MOTORS ###

(a)Business Case Analysis ####

(1)Government-owned, contractor operated The Secretary of the Army and the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment shall jointly conduct a business case analysis of the Federal Government using a Government-owned, contractor-operated model to ensure a robust domestic industrial base to supply specialty chemicals, including ammonium perchlorate, for use in solid rocket motors. Such analysis shall include assessments of the near- and long-term costs, operating and sustainment costs, program impacts, opportunities for competition, opportunities for redundant or complementary capabilities, and national security implications of using such a model. ####

(2)Report Not later than March 1, 2019, the Secretary and the Under Secretary shall submit to the congressional defense committees the business case analysis conducted under paragraph (1). ###

(b)Annual Reports on Certain Solid Rocket Motors ####

(1)In general Not later than December 31, 2018, and each year thereafter through 2021, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees an annual report on rockets or missiles provided to the Department of Defense during the year covered by the report that use a solid rocket motor that was, in whole or in part, recovered or recycled from a rocket motor previously owned by the Department of Defense. ####

(2)Matters included Each report under paragraph

(1)shall include, with respect to the year covered by the report, the following: #####

(A)An identification of which rockets or missiles covered by the report use recycled ammonium perchlorate. #####

(B)The quantity of such recovered or recycled ammonium perchlorate. #####

(C)Whether any of the solid rocket propellant, or sodium perchlorate precursor, to be used in the rocket or missile is imported from a foreign country, and if so, the identity of the country. #####

(D)Any other information the Secretary determines appropriate.